Movies like Hanuman Ansh are one reason superstition and a backward mindset persist in Indian society.
The film glorifies so called miracles of Lakshman Narayan Sharma, aka Neem Karoli Baba, that lack reliable historical evidence.
The story of him travelling without a ticket, being thrown off a train and then stopping it sounds absurd and is not backed by railway records.
It's high time to speak out against such misleading movies that pull society backward, not toward the future. We need change, not traditional garbage.
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Understanding the Hate Towards Assam: The UP of the Northeast
Assam is sometimes called the Uttar Pradesh of the Northeast. Rarely as a compliment.
The stereotypes given in Meghalaya are familiar. Assamese tourists come to the hills, stop their cars beside a beautiful viewpoint, eat Maggi and leave the packet behind. Sometimes the anger is deserved. I have seen our own aunties behave as if every flower in Ward's Lake is part of a government horticulture scheme meant specifically for them.
But then there is the other side.
An AS-numbered car misses a signal somewhere around Dhankheti, and suddenly the driver is a Dakhar. One bad indicator and several Galis are invoked.
There is a reason this mistrust exists.
During the Hill State movement, Assam was seen as the dominant state, and for legitimate historical reasons. Questions of language, administration and cultural imposition created resentment among the hill communities. Meghalaya itself emerged from that history.
But history has an interesting habit. The circumstances change faster than the politics built around them.
Today, there is hardly any Assamese expansion happening inside Meghalaya. The average Assamese isn't waking up in Guwahati dreaming about buying a plot in Police Bazar. Yet in parts of the political imagination, the old Assamese aggressor remains alive and well due to a lack of new political imagination.
And that is where history slowly becomes stereotype.
We saw the contradiction again recently. A protest concerning recruitment and transparency, a domestic Meghalaya issue involving the KSU, somehow ended with vehicles bearing Assam registration numbers being targeted.
That distinction is important. The KSU does not represent every Khasi. The Khasi community does not represent all of Meghalaya.
But outrage doesn't enjoy nuance. So Assam retaliates. Block the road. Stop the vehicles. Teach them a lesson. Half the homestays in Shillong get cancellations.
Revenge served? Not quite.
Because somewhere near Khanapara, an Assamese cab driver is now sitting inside his vehicle, calculating his EMI. His livelihood depends on taking tourists from Guwahati to Shillong every day.
You thought you were punishing Meghalaya. Your rhetoric also punished the Assam cab-walla.
And indiscriminate retaliation doesn't stop to ask whether the person inside an ML-number vehicle is Khasi either. He could be Garo. He could be Jaintia. He could have absolutely nothing to do with whatever happened in Shillong.
This is the great comedy and tragedy of the Northeast.
We spend enormous amounts of energy proving how different we are, only to discover during every blockade that our economies are hopelessly dependent on each other.
Shillong needs tourists arriving through Assam. Assamese cab drivers need Shillong. Meghalaya needs roads through Assam. Assam needs Meghalaya's markets, people and tourism economy.
Our students cross these borders. Our businesses cross them. Our friendships cross them. Our romances occasionally cross them too. (Except that Jaintia baddie who never called me back)
Some disputes deserve anger. Assam is absolutely right to be angry. But collective punishment is intellectual laziness.
An Assamese littering in Shillong doesn't represent Assam. A Khasi vandalising a car doesn't represent Meghalaya. And neither side becomes safer by converting a number plate into an ethnicity.
Conclusion – The Northeast is a contradiction until you accept we are all connected and that none of us can exist without each other.
And one personal disclosure before somebody inevitably questions which side I am on. My work as a journalist has taken me across the length and breadth of this region. I was born in Assam, but when I report on conflicts between its people, I cannot afford to see everything through one particular lens.
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Sivasagar is the worst-hit district in Assam right now.
It’s not getting a relief camp from us. It’s getting adopted- the entire district.
@Hemkunt_Fdn is already on the ground, seva running 24/7, for as long as it takes.
We’re not leaving until Sivasagar is back on its feet.
Time for @nsitharaman & @nitin_gadkari ji to go now and serve their respective homes.
The FM played a dirty game with millenials with the new regime, surcharge, ltcg, cess, tax on pf & nps. This generation can't be fool.
Make meaningful reforms. Leave the leech mentality.
Reach of Right Wing X accounts has gone.
Insta has completely been overtaken by protest videos.
Narrative is shaping up against the Govt & gaining much wider reach.
And the kids are enjoying the protest, making contents and getting viral.
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It’s interesting how Assamese women have proudly carried forward our traditional attire while I see most Assamese men just wear random North Indian clothes with a Gamusa around the neck. We, Assamese men must also put an effort & dress traditionally, on occasions like Bihu!